[lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy

Chip Berlet c.berlet at publiceye.org
Fri Aug 26 09:05:45 PDT 2005


Hi,

Trivia:

My great uncle Frederick Todd was a U.S. commercial attache to Cuba. He refused to support the idea of turning the island into a single crop sugar export plantation since he realized it would destroy the economy. He even wrote about this in 1934:

"Hay que Dar a Cuba Instituciones Propias y Vida Económica Independiente" por Frederick Todd "It is necessary To give to Cuba Own Institutions and Independent Economic Life" by Frederick Todd

Bohemia, May 20, 1934

Guggenheim was sent by the U.S. State Department to deliver the ultimatum: agree to making Cuba a U.S. plantation or resign. Being a Victorian, he chose the suicide option. His widow told us never to go to the Guggenheim art museum because it was built on blood.

Chip Berlet http://www.publiceye.org


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